Overview

Quick Hotbar

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What's this?

Have you ever been building that epic structure or map and you find yourself spending so much time swapping out blocks into the 9 slots you have been given? Me too! So with this mod, while holding down left CTRL you will see a preview of all 27 inventory slots. Use your mouse wheel to toggle inventory rows up or down. As you are doing this, you will get a preview of your inventory slots in game. And with the latest version you can also hold down number and switch items in just one column. Cool, huh?

Compatibility

This mod works in both singleplayer and multiplayer. You only need to install this mod into your client (special mention and thanks to Kobata for helping out with this.). It is also possible to install this mod into your server, and if you do so server will assist in item switching to bypass desyncing issues and also if you install the mod into your server, clients are not required to have the mod installed.

In Minecraft 1.7 left ctrl is the default sprint key. This mod does not register keybindings into Minecraft registry but I check for keypresses manually, which means that you can still use your sprint key while using this mod

So, how it all got started anyway?

As I have been developing MinecraftEdu, my friend who also is one of MinecraftEdu's educational advisors started asking me for a mod that allows you to very easily switch your inventory row while you are playing. As this was something I also though of being useful, I got excited about making a Forge mod about it and here we are now

Would it be possible to add support for Iventory Tweaks so that items no longer "auto fill" down when you scroll through the inventory with Quick Hotbar?

Right now when you have an item selected on your hotbar and you scroll to another bar in your inventory which has an empty spot on the same place you had selected in the previous bar, Inventory Tweaks will pull the item you had selected before into the empty spot.

There is. You can set "enableAutoRefill" to false in Inventory Tweaks' config. However that is one of the more useful tweaks that mod adds.

When you are building something with stone blocks, and your stack runs out, it will pull another stack from your inventory into the hotbar spot that just became empty. It does something similar for tools and weapons. When your sword is depleted, it will automatically pull another from your inventory so you can continue fighting without having to dive into your inventory yourself.